Minecraft: Pi Edition runs on Raspbian "Wheezy" with XWindows. A beta version came out in December, but this updated release has a number of bug fixes and improvements that players will appreciate.

"Thanks to all at Mojang for all the work you've done on this, and greetings to those of you who are coming to the Raspberry Pi platform to play this new edition," said a blog post from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. "We're really happy to be able to welcome all you Minecrafters to the Pi family!"

The first version of the Minecraft port was released in November. Then it was the result of a week's worth of coding.

"This new version is based on the Pocket Edition of Minecraft, which you may have seen running on mobile phones and tablets, but has one key difference: you can program it. All you have to do is set up a network connection to the running game, and then you can send text commands to control the world," said the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Liz Upton then.

"This makes is possible to program in any language which supports network connections, and you can access the game from any computer which is connected to the Pi." µ